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A web-based drag-and-drop builder for oh-my-posh that makes creating beautiful terminal prompts actually fun! Link to article: https://montemagno.com/introducing-oh-my-posh-visual-configurator-finally-a-drag-and-drop-terminal-theme-builder/
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This post shows you how to migrate your self-managed MLflow tracking server to a MLflow App – a serverless tracking server on SageMaker AI that automatically scales resources based on demand while removing server patching and storage management tasks at no cost. Learn how to use the MLflow Export Import tool to …
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This post demonstrates how to solve this challenge by building an AI-powered website assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-an-ai-powered-website-assistant-with-amazon-bedrock/
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Regular readers of this blog may remember the giant traditional Swedish Yule Goat erected annually in the Swedish town of Gävle. The Gävle Goat ( Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251229-01/?p=111929
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A customer wanted to write a process that could detect that it is nearing its job memory limit. Now, if you were asking about system memory limits rather than job memory limits, you would use the CreateMemoryResourceNotification to create a "low memory" notification. As noted in the documentation, this …
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If you're using self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, you might have noticed they can be surprisingly CPU-intensive, even when idle. A closer look reveals that a single runner can peg a CPU core at 100% utilization. This isn't a bug in your workflow; it's a deliberate design choice in the runner's sleep mechanism. The …
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This excerpt discusses enhancing Microsoft .NET application performance by minimizing network calls. The author emphasizes client-side caching with Spargine’s InMemoryCache, which drastically improves responsiveness and scalability for costly operations like reflection. While significant speed gains are noted, …
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Learn how to build a high-performance cache from scratch in .NET, moving from a simple ConcurrentDictionary to an optimized keyed-locking system. This deep dive explores how to master concurrency patterns like double-checked locking to protect your APIs and improve application scalability. Link to article: …
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We introduced TeamCity Pipelines in March 2024 to make CI/CD setup simpler and more intuitive, without limiting what teams can build and automate. Pipelines brought a new workflow focused on a more guided configuration experience, including a visual editor with drag-and-drop dependencies, YAML for defining building …
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Commenter Shawn wondered why we are so worried about memory access semantics. Back in my day, we just used full barriers everywhere, and I didn't hear nobody complainin'. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251226-00/?p=111919
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Microsoft Azure resource naming conventions are one of those “small” DevOps and cloud infrastructure management disciplines that quietly determine whether your cloud estate stays governable at 50 resources—or collapses into entropy at 5,000 resources. In this article, you’ll build a repeatable, region-aware naming …
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I ran across a promotion from a hotel. Join us for the holidays with this promotion code. But if you read down to the fine print, it also says Limited number of rooms available for each date. May not be valid during holiday Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251225-01/?p=111916
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Just to see what happens, a customer called SetClipboardData(CF_TEXT) and passed a memory block that was intentionally not null-terminated. They found that when they subsequently pasted the string (say, into Notepad), the last character didn't get pasted. As a second experiment, they over-allocated the buffer b Link …
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Created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto and first released in 1995, Ruby arrived with a purpose that was simple but profound: to make coding more human, more intuitive, and more enjoyable. Its object-oriented model, dynamic typing, and elegant syntax offered a fresh alternative to the heavier and more complex languages of …
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In this post, we explore how to programmatically create an IDP solution that uses Strands SDK, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base, and Bedrock Data Automation (BDA). This solution is provided through a Jupyter notebook that enables users to upload multi-modal business documents and extract insights …
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Enterprise organizations increasingly rely on web-based applications for critical business processes, yet many workflows remain manually intensive, creating operational inefficiencies and compliance risks. Despite significant technology investments, knowledge workers routinely navigate between eight to twelve different …
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In this post, we explore how agentic QA automation addresses these challenges and walk through a practical example using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser and Amazon Nova Act to automate testing for a sample retail application. Link to article: …
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In this post, we demonstrate how to optimize large language model (LLM) inference on Amazon SageMaker AI using BentoML's LLM-Optimizer to systematically identify the best serving configurations for your workload. Link to article: …
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In 30 minutes with GitHub Copilot, VS Code, and Claude Opus 4.5 I built my ultimate FIRE calcultor app that is private, secure, and free! Link to article: https://montemagno.com/building-a-complete-fire-calculator-app-with-github-copilot-in-one-chat-session/
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A customer didn't understand why their Win32 accelerator key for Ctrl+M was triggering spuriously. Specifically, it was triggering when the user hit the Enter key, which is nothing like the Ctrl+M two-key combination. They defined their accelerator table like this: IDA Link to article: …
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